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Show IEEDS, UTAH MIDGET TRIBUNE--Mii.Y, 1938 Page 8 ~Ji.L,IHESS . ~ · . Vie hea.r · mucn·. o.bout mnnliness these. days. ·•ae nmn;" •Pla.y a. pa.rt of a ae.n;" "Don't be kiddisk\; ·• a.re o.11 common phtHses to every one or us. EVen in the ro.r bible days·. the Apostle po.ul ndmonishes the men:: ~n the words, "QI.lit you like . o. mo.n, be strong. 11 Down thru the a.gas ho.s oome the:, ringing o~llenge to every youth as comes. into mo.turity; "Be u am.nt• · ' ·· · · .· · aa.ok in the middle O:ges wus f:. bea.utiful thing .called Chivalry, it was the oultivo.tion or tho most stately type of rna.nhood. 'I1he dre·a.m of Chivcilry was embodied by ·King Arthur a.nd tho Knig hts wli~ snt with him o.t the Round Tnble. !At the noble .King Arthur himself tell whut Ohivo.lry mea.nts "+. was the first of ull the kings w~o drew Tn~ Knir;hthood-erre .nt of t.his realm. o.nd o.11 Th.a reo.lms together under roo, their· heo.d• ·In tho. t ro.ir order o.r my To.gle Round• : . A glorious compcmy, the flower of' ioont To serve o.s model for the mii;;hty world, And -. be the fuir bei:;innint; of o. ti9E1. I im'de them lo.y '!:;heir hunds in mine ·:acid .swear,. To reverence the Kini, o.s if he were . Their conscience, nnd their conscience a: s· their King. To ride o.bToo.d red res sill6 humun .wrongf:i, To speo.k no slunder, no, nor listen to it, To honor his own work n.s if his God •s, . • · To ' lead sweet livos in purest chasity, .. · . To.. love one ma.id en only, o leave to her, An·~ w9rship her ·by yea.rs of noble deeds, Until they .won her; for indeed I knew . or .no more Subtle muste~ under heaven T.hcin is .the mci.i,d en pass ion for a. mo.id , Not onlJ· to keep down the bo.se in nnn, But tenoi\ hie;h thou6 ht;;, o.nd o.mia.ble ·words And oowatliness~ o.nd the desire of to.me, And, love of truth, nnd all th~t makes a. t:i1.n." •Thus the onth o~ the Arthurio.n kni 6 hthood and rno.nhood oonsisted of loya.lty, . to C~rist, to -ung ·,-- 0.na ' to""conircienoe ·. 11 We oould well po.ro.phra.se it ns loya.lty to Christ, Nation, and ovnscience. They were to be truthful in an o.ge of to.lsehood; oourteo_l,11Lin .a.n. ~ge-..~r con,rseness; _ch ri.ste in an ne;e of unoha.sity; temper~ . ate in 8ill o.g1;1 or . in'\;eliper.a.nce. . . . ·:. . . . . · It av.tter .s ~ot 10,ur. stntion in lif~, or the. work yQu o.re doing, or the surroundillc; ~wbidh :you !ire placed• t:J.Lnlinoss llS typified by Arthurian Cl,aivalry is o.lwnytf the ·ohci:Jle·nc;e ·wh1oh will test y·., ur true worth, nnd dee lo.re to the world your true vul,ie:. ; . . . If' you 'llictoriously live Kin6 Arthurl.s- challenge to Ohivo.lry, ·your life olln RO' help beinb u ho.ppy uod fruitful one. Again the words'of the great Apostle Pa.ul, "Stanli fa.st in fnith; quit you like men; be strong.~ in. in c./--~ · .. - 157- . .,./ .·, . 1/"Y:~ f f ~ · LEON W. HAWLEY Cho.plo.in r |
